Vision and outlook for system evolution and diversity
TNO report
High-tech cyber-physical systems (CPSs) continuously evolve and are becoming increasingly diverse, which poses challenges for their development and maintenance.
This recent TNO-ESI report describes a vision and outlook for dealing with evolution and diversity aspects of CPSs.
The aim is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of system engineers by means of models, and digital assistants operating on these models, to shorten feedback cycles, lower cost, and increase quality.
High-tech cyber-physical systems (CPS) are becoming increasingly diverse: they may have many variations and configurations, might be part of product families, and may be highly customizable. Additionally, CPSs tend to continuously evolve - have variation in time - for example due to technology updates, changing demands, or changing requirements. However, CPSs are typically not designed in a way to easily deal with all aspects of diversity and evolvability. The growing diversity of CPSs, and the need to continously evolve all system variations and configurations, make it more and more challenging to develop CPSs, especially since the demands on system quality are also increasing.